Confetti Screens

[Karaoke John]

Recently I bought, several Chartbuster Packs, The Country 500 vol 1, A Pop Pack, and The Essential 450 E6. I have been in the process of Loading all of it on my computer I also puchased the Hoster upgrade to version 3.3??.
Heres my problem! When I went to play the songs that I loaded back I get a Screen full of confetti or on some songs the Screen turns another color sort of a phosphorecent green and the lyrics are unreadable. I thought maybe it is a glitch in the Hoster upgrade and I reinstalled the previous version that I had.
These disks play perfectly on my stand alone JVC 303. If anyone has ideas as to what is going on I sure would appreciate your input.
Johh

[bryant]

Oh, Oh....see if you can get a return. Then purchase a different brand. Chartbuster seems to be getting wosre and worse.


for Admin eyes only: Are there any new error correction code changes planned in the near future that will be advanced anough to detect and fix these type of errors?

I heard you had a superior one coming out soon.

[ddouglass]

John,
Chartbuster is one of the worst because they cut costs by using cheaper thinner disks. The computer will always be more sensitive to this than the player because the drive speeds are faster in the computer.

If you have MicroStudio, then import each disc into it and burn a copy of the disc. The copy should be cleaner. Use the copy to import into Hoster. I have a half dozen or so that I have done this with and it does make the display much cleaner.

If you don't have MicroStudio I highly recommend it.

[bryant]

I've heard that before too dale, but I have never had any success with using that method. Both copies seem to be snowflaky, why do you suppose that might be?

[George]

The burn speed has a lot to do with it, also.

A Plextor engineer told me the newer burners are optimized to perform at their higher speeds.

The old thinking that CDG's should always be burned at slower speeds is just that, old thinking. I always burn wide open.

Don't know if this will help clean up junky tracks or not, but worth a try.

It could very well be the opposite in some cases, so if you're burning fast, try a slower speed to clean up the junk....who knows?

George

[bryant]

hmmmm...but when I get junk, especially from ChartBuster discs..they are junk at any speed. Doesn't seem to matter.

[Karaoke John]

Well I just tried the duplicating disk using Microstudio and I got a little message that said the disk was multisession and unsupported by Microstudio. I am using version 2.6 I think. I use it so rarely. So I guess that is the problem and Hoster 3.30 Latest version won't read it correctly either. One of the disks I get screen stacked on top of screen . It looks like a ticker tape Parade . If I can't get this resolved I'll Just use them the old fashioned way and not buy anymore Chartbuster.
John